Re: CULT:TB's & Arilbreds

Hi Doris,

well you are very lucky to have the beauty of your Iris right now.  I have one
hardy soul right up against the house that has nice green leaves about 6 inches
tall.  This is a SDB that I moved when I moved to this house.  I did not have a
place to put it so I stuck it in this corner and last year I forgot to move it.
It is Tarheel Elf.  Hope it blooms as I need to see some live flowers.

Char

Doris Elevier wrote:

>     I wanted to start with "all's right with the world, the Iris are
> blooming," but all isn't right with or in the world. Having acknowledged that,
> may I, for this posting, pretend that when the iris bloom, when spring visits
> us, when the birds flirt and nest, things are OK some where. I can't, rather,
> won't allow the war to cast a shadow on this Iris bloom season.
>     AH SOO TB SA, didn't bloom last year but increased like a weed, was dug,
> divided and is blooming like an Iris possessed! She's a tall, bright yellow
> SA. Some blooms have spoons, some horns and some flounces! Talk about each
> blossom being a surprise package.
>     For the first time I have photographed an Iris and been most unhappy with
> the colors as my camera saw them. A lovely Arilbred, TARNISHED COIN . . . her
> colors are so complex that I don't even have the vocabulary to describe them.
> . .my camera certainly did not do her justice. I fiddled with the colors but
> was unable to show her true beauty. In this case, a picture is NOT worth a
> thousand words. Can one of you verbally endowed Aril people describe her to
> me?
>     So many Iris are coming on! Kasperek's AFRICAN WINE, MDB, opened in a
> cluster yesterday. I love those little babies! GRAPELETTE is growing and
> increasing like a weed. A delightful little splash of intense color.
>     One of the awarenesses (sp) that is washing over me this season is that
> some of the iris I thought rather homely last spring are being viewed (this
> spring) as quite lovely. Case in point: POGO DOLL. I found her rather drab
> last year and this spring, I fell in love with her and wondered what in the
> world I was seeing last year to not see that beauty! Another one, a rescue
> from a thrift shop, an older girl, purple, narrow falls and standards. . .last
> year she was relegated to a corner. This year she has bloomed and bloomed and
> bloomed. . .a mass of purple blossoms that grab your eye when viewed.
>     As I type this, TARNISHED COIN and PALLU are in a vase where I have
> photographed them. I have arrived at the conclusion that there is truly NO way
> to adequately "paint a verbal picture" of some of these Arils. . .they are
> beyond words and when the camera doesn't see their beauty, all that's left is
> to grow them yourself! Only then can you see their loveliness!
>
> Doris Elevier
> USDA zone 7b Sunset 11
> El Paso, TX
>
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